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EP 1027490 B1 · Applicant: Metso Paper Karlstad Aktiebolag

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  • Filed September 30, 1998 and granted February 26, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 30, 2018.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by March 30, 2024.
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FiledSeptember 30, 1998
PublishedAugust 16, 2000
GrantedFebruary 26, 2003
Term endedSeptember 30, 2018
Application numberEP 98946772
Classification (CPC)D21F3/0218

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